MORE THAN FRIENDS

Can't handle the truth

    
                   Meona sat down on the couch with her leg underneath her. For days she had been at Jamel's house, mopping around and depressed. At this point she had no idea what she would habe done if she didn't have the support system she had. Kabron and Kyra came by everyday for the past few days  to check on her and Jamel never left her side. If he had to make a run she rode with him and Kabron, at this point she wasn't safe alone. She pulled her phone out and looked over the many missed calls and texts from her parents. She just wasn't ready to talk to them yet, although she did want an explanation. Dialing her father's number and placing it to her ear, she sat patiently and waited for him to answer.

"Meona are you okay"? Samuel's voice boomed through the phone.
"Sweetie we have been so worried about you" Trina added indicating that she was close by.
"Why did you guys keep this from me"? she finally spoke up.  "Baby it's complicated. We know what we did, but we didn't wanna worry you" Trina said.
"I just don't understand how y'all knew this little girl for five years and never once mentioned to me that I had a sister. All the leaving and not coming back for days and months... leaving me alone. Y'all just forgot all about me and that's so unfair" she sobbed in the phone.
"Baby..."
"How could you do this to mom... how you just cheat on her with another woman and hurt her like this"? Meona questioned as she cut her father completely off.
Samuel took a deep breath "I know I hurt ya mother babygirl, but through them five years she forgave me and stayed by my side when she could have left".
"Who is she ... why haven't I met her"? She asked as she thought back on the previous conversation she had with her mother one night when she asked her how she felt about having a sibling and she brushed it off.
"Her name is Sade, she five years old. Her mother felt as though it was best for me and your mother to come and visit Sade instead of her coming home with us at the time. But just recent the reason we have been leaving so much lately is because your sister is very, very sick and if she doesn't get better she won't make it" Samuel choked up.  Meona's mouth dropped "What"?
"Baby listen to me ... we want you to come to visit her, Get to know her" Trina said.

"Book the flight" was all Meona said before she disconnected the call. She sat there with tears in her eyes just as Jamel, Kabron and Kyra walked in. Kyra came and sat next to Meona and wrapped her arms around her. She noticed the tears in her eyes and rushed over to her.
"What happened babe"? Jamel asked taking a seat across from her.  Kabron took a seat down on the arm of the chair and braced himself for what ever she was ready to tell them.
"Her name is Sade, she's five and she's sick to the point she might not survive" she said with a aching pain in her chest as tears fell.
"Damn" Kabron said shaking his head.
"Baby I'm sorry to hear that... where is she can we visit her"? Jamel asked.
She shook her head yes before staring off in a daze "I swear I can't take nomore bad news... my heart can't take it like I'm just one person... how much can I take?? If you love me tell me because I can't deal with nomore heart breaks" she said as tears spilled out her eyes.
"We love you meme"Kabron spoke first.
"We love you" both Kyra and Jamel said at the same time. Meona dropped her head towards her lap and broke down crying. This wasn't the news she was expecting to hear and to make it worse, she never even once met her sister.

                        Meona entered the hospital room with her heart thumping hard in her chest. She saw her parents sitting side by side near the window and another woman sitting closer by the bed side. Meona wasn't too in the mode to dress up so she threw on a black hoodie with a pair of jeans and let her long hair hang down. She wasn't a friendly meeting so there was no need to get all dolled up, still she looked beautiful as ever. The minute her eyes landed on a pretty little brownskinned girl with long curly dark hair laid in the hospital bed, her heart broke so more. Jamel, Kyra and Kabron embraced everyone in the room with love unlike Meona who was more focused on the little baby girl. She walked over to the bed side and softly touched her small hand as she gripped it in hers.
"What's wrong with her"? she asked with tears in her eyes.
"She needs a heart transplant" Trina spoke in a low voice. It broke her heart to see her daughter so upset, but could she blame her? The sister she never met was laid here in this bed fighting for her life and it was nothing no one could do, but pray for a miracle.
Meona looked up at the stranger who sat close by the bed side and realized it was Victoria. She was so beautiful, but that still didn't stop Meme from being so what angry to the pain she caused her family.